Udu Wudu [Import]

Magma | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Charly UK
• ASIN: B000007WAN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,251,355 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Udu Wudu

2. Weidorje

3. Tröller Tanz (Ghost Dance)

4. Soleil D'Ork (Ork' Sun)

5. Zombies (Ghost Dance)

6. De Futura

Editorial Reviews

Available again at a new low price for a limited time. Digitally remastered and authorised by the group. Reissue of theveteran French prog act's 1976 album. Standard jewel case. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Prog Rock from Frog Rockers. This disk changed my life., January 5, 2000

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Bill Wolf (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Udu Wudu (Audio CD)

I LOVE this disk. Someone gave me a tape of it around 1978 when I was 16. Ever since I've looked all over for their stuff with no success. Thanks to the internet I've found a bunch and even gotten to see them live twice. I can now die happy. This really is one of my fav's.

Really great drumming in an urgent and articulate style. An unbelievable fretless player. Mock Operatic singing in a made up language from another planet. Elements of Coltrane. Elements of the headrush of a spike hitting your vein...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Collision of styles, April 23, 2002

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Robert Schell (Townsville, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Udu Wudu (Audio CD)

The first track is a fast male/female call-and-response mambo, sung in an alien language. The signature sound of the album, a heavy fuzzy bass (mostly played by Jannik Top, the most metallic bassist since John Wetton), doesn't kick in until the second track. Then you get stuff that sounds like science fiction fusion and Middle Eastern funk, with eerie keyboard interjections. Which is just prologue for the amazing tour-de-force finale, which sounds like a cross between 'Red' era King Crimson and the Butthole Surfers -- I'm not kidding here. This is for more adventurous fans of prog rock, as well as fans of weirdness. In my opinion, this one is more accessible than MDK, a fan favorite, and will certainly appeal more to fans of straight-forward rock, for all its strangeness.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Essence of Zeuhl Music, August 14, 2002

By 

John Q. Publik (Califonria, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Udu Wudu (Audio CD)

As a rabid Magma fan since the mid-70's, familiar with all their albums, I would classify Udu Wudu as the "purest" Magma album (with the possible exception of Wurdah Itah). Magma's music may be inspired by John Coltrane, but this is progressive jazz-rock taken to ends which Coltrane never imagined in his worst nightmare. Chilling and exhilerating! A must-have. Very streamlined in sound compared to the full-blown production of Magma's other classic, Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh, but not as spare as Wurdah Itah, and with none of the pop/R&B influences which characterized their later album, Attahk. The incredible 18-minute finale "De Futura" essentially invented the classic "zeuhl" sound typified by growling lead fuzz-bass lines, harsh otherworldly keyboard textures, and relentless mind-numbing drumming which was continued on by a host of great zeuhl bands during the late 70s and 80s, particularly the great Magma spin-off band Weidorje, the first album "Drones" by ex-Weidorje keyboardist Jean-Philippe Goude, and the "4 Visions" album by the great Magma sound-alike band Eskaton. This album, however, is where it all began. There is nothing quite like playing this album late at night really loud in the dark -- a menacing exploration of pristine darkness -- a disturbing tour through the homeworld of a sinister, merciless alien race. Utterly mesmerizing!